Climate Change: No Reprieve From Heat This Decade as Globally Agreed 1.5°C Limit Looms

Earth is now expected to cross 1.5°C warming by 2027, WMO warns

The world is on track to breach the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming limit set in the Paris Agreement within the next two years, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).Shannon Osaka reports for The Washington Post.In short:The WMO projects that the global average temperature will exceed 1.5°C above preindustrial levels by 2027, a full decade earlier than previously predicted, due to record-breaking heat and ongoing…

Earth is Heading for nearly 5ºF Heating this Century -- Unprecedented Peril, But We've Made Progress

By Sven Teske, University of Technology Sydney (The Conversation) – Is climate action a lost cause? The United States is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement for the second time, while heat records over land and sea have toppled and extreme weather events have multiplied. In late 2015, nations agreed through the Paris Agreement to try to hold warming well under 2°C and ideally to 1.5°C. Almost ten years later, cutting emissions to the point of m…

Earth could cross a key climate threshold in two years. Here’s why it matters.

Seven years ago, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that the world wouldn’t warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels until 2040.

Climate change: No reprieve from heat this decade as globally agreed 1.5°C limit looms

Temperature limits the world agreed to avoid are looming into view.

Climate change: no reprieve from heat this decade as globally agreed 1.5°C limit looms

Temperature limits the world agreed to avoid are looming into view. The global temperature has been 1.5°C hotter than the pre-industrial average for almost two years now. The reason, overwhelmingly, is that greenhouse gas emissions are at record highs from the burning of fossil fuels and forests. In a new analysis, the World Meteorological Organization has predicted that global average warming will remain above 1.5°C for the rest of this decade.…

Earth to cross 1.5°C temperature rise threshold by 2029, warns UN

There is also an 86% probability that at least one of the years between 2025 and 2029 will see global temperatures more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900 average).